Privacy, self esteem, independence... Problem is that video over IP is/was notoriously difficult to make plug and play and every non technical person can only go as far as DLing on program without shopping around so they would just install Skypee and be done with it, which arguably is the `safe` in the "non time consuming" way choice. No matter that centralized communications like these are wrong from inception on they are the wide standard because it made sense to some company and said company invested into it to makei it a "sort of" standard. It like religion only in the digital age.
Yes but my empirical analysis of first world citizens leads me to believe that the end setup for the avg person - and after the mobile market gets saturated - is two mobile devices (phones, tablets) and one Classical personal computer (laptops and HTPCs included).
Which means that after market saturation you should on average have twice as many mobile OS images as PC OS images installed. The mobile computer market will keep on becoming bigger and bigger there is no question in that. I just hope that we will manage to get away from the ludicrous "Standalone App even though it just is a d@mn webapp" software trend.
I was always dissatisfied by string theory to be honest. Not from the science per se but from the philosophical implication that after you wade through all the scales there actually exists one distinct smallest and one distinct largest scale. I mean, come on! The Universe can do better than that! And what about recursion? Huh that is a bit poetic at least!
Ok, according to TFA (not that big one actually) the production process is 100k nanometers so it should be about 2000 times bigger to the current i7's transistors at 45nanometers. Of course the 45nm production process does not actually measure transistor size so this is completely useless and misleading....
Well, the switch speeds are immense compared to classical silicon based chips. I don't know about the production process they are using but if they manage to fabricate them with comparable etching resolution to the normal chips or just keep transistor count equal then the performance difference should be very near the clock difference.
About the voice acting to production cost point: That's actually a very interesting point of view. The big worlds: Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, Chrono, Suikoden, etc were all inspired in an age where story telling was actually cheap compared to trying to re optimise some ai/networking/gameplay stack and cram it onto the CPUs cache. Now the cheap thing is building on existing asset portfolios while making bullets rush out of barrels while utilising some standardised AI engine.. And that new thing actually even sells. As more and more people get into gaming the curiosity vanishes and is replaced by demands of instant rewards.
While a lot of people have mentioned the plethora of good indie games, which is correct if you judge the games from their gameplay mechanics, I still fail to find games that excel in things like art direction and story telling. (Note that while I do game and mostly on indie I'm not hardcore nor doing extensive research on gaming)
BTW that was a pre beta of the tablet. And somebody yesterday complained that Firefox OS was looking laggy which doesn't even have hardware specs yet...
The only function the microsoft tablet has atm is an internet Explorer logo that animates when you touch it. What exactly was it that you wanted to try?
Yep! Plus the infinite opennes of HTML based tech means that every kid that wants to find out how it works will be able to mess with the source ind instantly get feedback on what it does.
Like everybody does with the gnome3 notification system!
I just hope they also provide decent reflashability for the OS files...
Well, the demos that are roaming the net these days still are pre alpha so tactile performance probably is not the main development area at the moment. That's probably still very wise since afaik the graphics pipeline is still being heavily developed.
BTW, regarding the bandwidth thing, correct but latency would also need to rival the human neural network's latency for it to be effective. I didn't really think of what I wrote in such an environment since IMO we still need lots of progress in network design to start rivaling biological neural synapses in a scale big enough to accommodate a big number of minds.
Windows phone OS sucks (not that any other windows OS doesn't) iOS sucks (as well as OSX and IOS but the last one is from a different company) but it sucks a bit less than the windows one Android sucks (as well as chrome OS but that one is getting better and is practically a Linux distro by now) just less than the Apple offer. Meego sucks because everybody killed it. No, wait that was Nokia. Arch on Arm doesn't suck at all! Only problem is that you sorta kinda have to be a hardcore OS developer and a skilled HW hacker in order to get it on a mobile phone and get some functionality out of it.
It does hurt though thinking that Nokia had a wonderfully correct OS to work on (and partners to help), Meego and threw it all away in order to get to work with an OS they didn't get any control in.
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Privacy, self esteem, independence... Problem is that video over IP is/was notoriously difficult to make plug and play and every non technical person can only go as far as DLing on program without shopping around so they would just install Skypee and be done with it, which arguably is the `safe` in the "non time consuming" way choice. No matter that centralized communications like these are wrong from inception on they are the wide standard because it made sense to some company and said company invested into it to makei it a "sort of" standard.
It like religion only in the digital age.
What was wrong with the term "stolen credit card"?
Yes but my empirical analysis of first world citizens leads me to believe that the end setup for the avg person - and after the mobile market gets saturated - is two mobile devices (phones, tablets) and one Classical personal computer (laptops and HTPCs included).
Which means that after market saturation you should on average have twice as many mobile OS images as PC OS images installed. The mobile computer market will keep on becoming bigger and bigger there is no question in that. I just hope that we will manage to get away from the ludicrous "Standalone App even though it just is a d@mn webapp" software trend.
I was always dissatisfied by string theory to be honest. Not from the science per se but from the philosophical implication that after you wade through all the scales there actually exists one distinct smallest and one distinct largest scale.
I mean, come on! The Universe can do better than that! And what about recursion? Huh that is a bit poetic at least!
No, I wasn't referring to those 2GB I was referring to people that actually produce 2GB big .doc documents.
Ok, according to TFA (not that big one actually) the production process is 100k nanometers so it should be about 2000 times bigger to the current i7's transistors at 45nanometers. Of course the 45nm production process does not actually measure transistor size so this is completely useless and misleading....
Well, the switch speeds are immense compared to classical silicon based chips. I don't know about the production process they are using but if they manage to fabricate them with comparable etching resolution to the normal chips or just keep transistor count equal then the performance difference should be very near the clock difference.
Also on this thread alone up to your own reply there have been:
4 mentions of Apple
1 mention of the iPad
1 mention of Samsung
And I think that's about the correct perceived marketing effect (5:1 advantage Apple)
About the voice acting to production cost point:
That's actually a very interesting point of view. The big worlds: Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, Chrono, Suikoden, etc were all inspired in an age where story telling was actually cheap compared to trying to re optimise some ai/networking/gameplay stack and cram it onto the CPUs cache. Now the cheap thing is building on existing asset portfolios while making bullets rush out of barrels while utilising some standardised AI engine.. And that new thing actually even sells. As more and more people get into gaming the curiosity vanishes and is replaced by demands of instant rewards.
While a lot of people have mentioned the plethora of good indie games, which is correct if you judge the games from their gameplay mechanics, I still fail to find games that excel in things like art direction and story telling.
(Note that while I do game and mostly on indie I'm not hardcore nor doing extensive research on gaming)
Wasn't there a WYSIWYG editor that produced LaTeX and looked like a plain text processor?
I have met people who've written their PhD thesis using MS Word. They've all agreed, after the fact, that it wasn't a good plan.
Ohh, dear people please listen to this man! Please listen and give an end to the madness of the 2GB .doc file!
BTW that was a pre beta of the tablet.
And somebody yesterday complained that Firefox OS was looking laggy which doesn't even have hardware specs yet...
The only function the microsoft tablet has atm is an internet Explorer logo that animates when you touch it.
What exactly was it that you wanted to try?
That wasn't windows 95 it was the next iteration of kde ;-)
I was referring to the abuse of the term "cloud".
Yep! Plus the infinite opennes of HTML based tech means that every kid that wants to find out how it works will be able to mess with the source ind instantly get feedback on what it does.
Like everybody does with the gnome3 notification system!
I just hope they also provide decent reflashability for the OS files...
Can we agree to just call it "The Internet" again?
Please?
Well, the demos that are roaming the net these days still are pre alpha so tactile performance probably is not the main development area at the moment. That's probably still very wise since afaik the graphics pipeline is still being heavily developed.
Good! Because for a moment I was thinking Apple went haywire and patented the <li> tag!
BTW, regarding the bandwidth thing, correct but latency would also need to rival the human neural network's latency for it to be effective. I didn't really think of what I wrote in such an environment since IMO we still need lots of progress in network design to start rivaling biological neural synapses in a scale big enough to accommodate a big number of minds.
The only real question here is whether this is the Atlantic's or Mr. Jacob's attempt to cash into a brewing moral panic, or a paid propaganda piece.
Or some FUDdy way to push oppressive legislation?
Why on earth did they put them in there?
Look at the ads:
Really? Really????
Yep exactly.
Windows phone OS sucks (not that any other windows OS doesn't)
iOS sucks (as well as OSX and IOS but the last one is from a different company) but it sucks a bit less than the windows one
Android sucks (as well as chrome OS but that one is getting better and is practically a Linux distro by now) just less than the Apple offer.
Meego sucks because everybody killed it. No, wait that was Nokia.
Arch on Arm doesn't suck at all! Only problem is that you sorta kinda have to be a hardcore OS developer and a skilled HW hacker in order to get it on a mobile phone and get some functionality out of it.
It does hurt though thinking that Nokia had a wonderfully correct OS to work on (and partners to help), Meego and threw it all away in order to get to work with an OS they didn't get any control in.
Serves them well now.
Also I liked the swipe interface quite a lot.